Playlist: Episode 169

Oct 06 2014

Folk Roots Radio on October 4 (Episode 169) featured interviews with Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson about her new album “River Of Sand”, and California-based film & TV composer turned singer-songwriter Ernest Troost about his recent album “O Love”.

This week’s mystery theme was about the subject of coffee, an essential part of the start to the day for many people, including yours truly. I’m not sure how you like it, but I take it black and the stronger the better. Actually, I can’t think of anything worse than weak coffee to start the day. Anyway, it was a good opportunity to play songs by Guy Davis, Danny Overbea, Pokey La Farge & The South City Three, Frazey Ford and Rick Fines. We started off with a classic version of torch song “Black Coffee” by Yukon-based Nicole Edwards.

This week’s Guilty Pleasure was Leonard Cohen with “Suzanne”. First published as a poem in 1966 the song featured on his first album “Songs of Leonard Cohen” in 1968. The song went out to Suzanne who asked for it because her first boyfriend Brian insisted on singing it whenever he came round to visit. Apparently that relationship didn’t last long. It seems that Brian wasn’t much of a singer… and his intentions weren’t that honourable.

If you have a guilty pleasure you’d like to share – that song you still love though you think other people would find it unfashionable (believe me, they won’t), get in touch. We’d love to play it for you! And, if you have a good story about why you love that song, so much the better.

Well, that’s about all we have time for this week. You can find the full playlist for the show below. Thanks to all the artists who share their music with us, and thank you for listening. You can find the full playlist for the show below. We’ll see you next week!

Folk Roots Radio – October 4 2014 by Folk Roots Radio on Mixcloud

Mystery Theme: “Coffee”

Nicole Edwards
Black Coffee
Sparkin’ (2008, Berry Pickin’ Productions) CDN

Guy Davis
Black Coffee (feat. Fabrizio Poggi)
Juba Dance (2013, Red House Records)

Danny Overbea
Forty Cups Of Coffee
Essential Blues Anthology (2010, Not Now Music)

Pokey La Farge & The South City Three
Coffee Pot Blues
Middle Of Everywhere (2011, Continental Sound City)

Frazey Ford
One More Cup Of Coffee
Obadiah (2010, Nettwerk) CDN

Rick Fines
Coffee – One Cream
Out Of The Living Room (1998, Festival Records) CDN

Brooks Williams
Before Coffee
Back To Mercy (1992, Green Linnet)

Lynne Hanson
River Of Sand
River Of Sand (2014, Continental Sound City) CDN

Interview: Lynne Hanson discussing her new album “River Of Sand”.

Lynne Hanson
Trading In My Lonesome
River Of Sand (2014, Continental Sound City) CDN